Wong Leung-wo

Wong Leung-wo (1963–) is a contemporary Hong Kong novelist and writer of prose, poetry and literary criticism. He is also a retired Associate Professor of the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies at The Education University of Hong Kong. Wong has received numerous awards, including the Hong Kong Arts Development Council Youth Literary Awards, Awards for Creative Writing in Chinese and the Hong Kong Biennial Awards for Chinese Literature.

His first short story collection, The Fish Curse, won first prize in the Fiction Category of the 7th Hong Kong Biennial Awards for Chinese Literature; his second collection, Break Open Hell, won the same award at the 13th biennial. A combined edition of these two collections, The Metamorphosis of a Cockroach, was named one of the Top Ten Chinese Novels of 2015 by Asia Weekly. In 2016, he received the Artist of the Year Award for Literary Arts at the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards.

His publications include the poetry collections Not Yet Born and Old Things, the prose collections Street Wanderer and Supernatural Driver and the critical collection The Secrets of the Text: Analyses of Hong Kong Literary Works, among others.

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